Revisiting Critical Theory, Neo-pragmatism and Subaltern Studies, this paper will discuss a series of concepts like the turn to emotions, coldness, ethics of sympathy, sentimental education of the epoch, decolonization of culture as sensibilisation, suffering humanity, and legal surrealism and anthropophagy as critiques of modern reason -all within the horizon of the question about how to enhance the human rights culture in the times of globalization and neo-colonialism.